Setting Up a Virtual Machine for Cloudera Director Server

Cloudera Director server is used to provision CDH clusters. See the Azure document Create a Linux VM on Azure using the Portal for an overview on creating a
Linux VM on Azure. We recommend using the CentOS image published by Cloudera on Marketplace.

Provide the following values during creation:

Instance size should be D3 or larger.

Typically, install Cloudera Director in the same virtual network and subnet of the cluster.

Typically, specify the same network security group.

Typically, set the same availability as you will set on the master nodes.

A Public IP address is optional, depending on the access pattern you use.